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Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by pat grimshaw

I mix up my milk from milk powder. It costs just 20% of the cost of ordinary processed milk.

Yes, and it tastes like stale ass.

When I was in fifth or sixth grade, the public schools in Delaware started selling milk pouches (developed by DuPont, of course). They took up less space in the cafeteria fridges and they were recyclable. We actually had a bench made from recycled milk pouches in our school. A few years after I graduated from high school, they went back to cartons for reasons that were never explained. I liked those pouches, though.

There's a local dairy that sells milk in glass bottles, and it tastes wonderful. Unfortunately, because it's not ultra-pasteurized, it doesn't last as long as the brands that come in paper cartons, so I generally don't buy it. I just had to dump out almost an entire bottle because it went bad.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite to a party. ~Joan Crawford

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

The only concern I would have is bisphenols leaching into the milk from the plastic. Canada has really cracked down on this so I'm surprised it is allowed unless they are no bisphenols (like in plastic water bottles). It's inconvenient to say the least compared to a pouring carton.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by LilBit

Yes, and it tastes like stale ass....

I can't say because I have NEVER tasted another man's rectum. I will die before doing that!

But dried milk DOES need to be mixed in the right proportion and it does need to sit in the fridge for a few hours to chill and mix properly. I know some people complain it's been 'processed' but I say all commercial milk has been through umpteen processes.

Also skimmed milk, once you get used to the cleaner taste, makes it is easier to reduce a fatty diet. And, I'll say it again, it reduces the cost of transportation 80% from the total cost of the product!

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by pat grimshaw

I can't say because I have NEVER tasted another man's rectum. I will die before doing that!

But dried milk DOES need to be mixed in the right proportion and it does need to sit in the fridge for a few hours to chill and mix properly. I know some people complain it's been 'processed' but I say all commercial milk has been through umpteen processes.

Also skimmed milk, once you get used to the cleaner taste, makes it is easier to reduce a fatty diet. And, I'll say it again, it reduces the cost of transportation 80% from the total cost of the product!

My sincerest condolences for the severe poverty in which you live where milk comes in powder form and that has become acceptable......

I like milk in small batches but fresh as the day is long..... that UHT stuff and the powder.... baaaaaleckkk

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

In redneck country, we have binders full of milk.

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Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

^ It's really quite convenient, actually. And it's been around for decades.

Originally Posted by MissAnne

We have those in the States too. As a kid in PA, we used to drink milk from a bag everyday at lunch.

I can remember as a child in the 1970s, having our milk in bags. My parents were getting home delivery of milk from Rochester's Meisenzahl Dairy. They were transitioning from glass bottles to either milk in bags or cartons. My parents had the choice, and chose to try the bags. We had several of those funky milk pitchers in avocado green. My mother would place the quart (maybe it was 2 quarts) bag into the pitcher, and somehow, it stood in place. She would snip the corner closest to the pitcher spout with a pair of scissors, and the milk was ready to pour. It must have been that it was either not profitable or more convenient to deliver cartons, because after about two years, Meisenzahl discontinued bags, and we were getting our milk in cartons.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by JohannBessler

That's true--to us.

Other cultures see it differently.

No; Cultures don't get to have some kind of separate truth. Milk is not excrement. It is food. One may like it or not but its basic biological purpose is to provide nourishment. The basic premise behind excrement is to rid the body of indigestible foodstuffs or proteins from spent cells. See how they're different?

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by Kahaih

But, they look far too fragile, and I’m far too clumsy to be transporting those things. Milk would be all over the place before I got it home.

I've never had a bag break, even when I've dropped it, and I have dropped my share over the decades. However, I've dropped cartons and they have ripped open and left me with a mess to clean up on a number of occasions.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

We have that in olden times icey cold milk in cafeteria style places were served for huge
refrigerator looking things with spigots. The milk bags went inside and the 'spigot pulled
from inside the bag.
As to dehydrated milk well we use dehydrated water for everything...
can't tell the difference. Maybe I'll try the milk.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

The pressure of the milk creates a seal between the pitcher and the bag. It's quite a chore trying to pull a full bag out of the pitcher, and I've never had a bag fall out on its own.

That doesn't work when the humidity is really low. But if you leave the inside of the pitcher just barely damp and put the bag in, you can actually turn the thing upside down and the bag stays in (if you've got a fair air pocket under the bag, vacuum effect holds the bag).

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

I like raw milk. Those of you unlucky enough to have never tasted it don't realize what they have missed. Raw milk is to pasteurized milk, as decaffeinated coffee is to coffee.

To be fair, raw milk has a significant risk of containing pathogens. Buy from a reputable dealer.

@as for milk in a bag--I have no opinion of it. If you have ever eaten in a restaurant, you have almost certainly drank milk out of a bag.

Yeah. In the college cafeterias, all the milk came in bags -- six-gallon monsters that most of the staff couldn't lift, and were a pain to change in the middle of a meal when one ran dry. Fraternities sometimes snagged some out of the recycling to use as beer bags at parties.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by Kulindahr

That doesn't work when the humidity is really low.

I've never had a bag of milk fall out of a pitcher. Maybe you use a different shaped pitcher. Ours is oval like the bag of milk and you often have to smack the pitcher on the counter to get the bag in all the way. It really is a tight seal whether it's high or low humidity.

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

I like raw milk. Those of you unlucky enough to have never tasted it don't realize what they have missed. Raw milk is to pasteurized milk, as decaffeinated coffee is to coffee.

To be fair, raw milk has a significant risk of containing pathogens. Buy from a reputable dealer.....

I hate milk, period. When I was far younger raw milk -- yuck -- put me in the hospital.

Milk is a North American and Northern European phenomenon, maybe include Australia and NZ (not sure of them, living upside down as they do): most of the world disregards it. Because of adult lactose deficiency (intolerance) adult milk consumption is generally limited to Westerners of Northern European extraction. Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking, Scribners, 1984, p. 8; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance.

This is why American food aid in form of milk to Africa countries, and other countries, caused widespread diarrhea outbreaks..

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by gsdx

^ It's really quite convenient, actually. And it's been around for decades.

One of the main advantage of milk in bag, it's the freshness an the convenience of storage. You get around 4 liters of milk separated in three bags. You open only one bag at a time and can store the remaining bag(s) horizontally somewhere in your fridge...

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Originally Posted by MTLDude

One of the main advantage of milk in bag, it's the freshness an the convenience of storage. You get around 4 liters of milk separated in three bags. You open only one bag at a time and can store the remaining bag(s) horizontally somewhere in your fridge...

Wouldn't it tend to pick up other flavours from the fridge? A jug or a carton can be closed...

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

I've never seen milk in a bag before, but it wouldn't bother me. I've drank wine from a bag before. Actualy, it (the wine) was in a bag, in a box, and tasted just fine.
Do these milk bags have ant type of resealable spout?

Re: Does your milk come in a bag? Canadians, explain yourselves.

Plus, no container is perfect. The 2-litre cartons can be a pain to open sometimes, and there is nothing worse than just mashing the spout of the carton trying to get it open. And I've had more than one 4-litre jug fail to seal properly and leak in the car on the way home or in the fridge. Rare, but it has happened.